Youngest of 3 boys, Kacey, spent most of his young life in hospital and his parents were eventually told that he would need a transplant of liver, spleen, intestine and bowel. Kacey was eventually matched to a donor and received his transplant. This was a
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Max’s mum was in a serious car accident, was in hospital for a long time and had many operations with long term and ongoing treatment. This had a massive impact on all the family, not least Max who was worried all the time mum was
A surprise for a lovely girl
Amelia’s brother needs lots of care and family life revolves around him. Obviously this impacts on Amelia a lot but she never complains. She helps mum look after him and calms him when needed. Amelia had her bike stolen and so mum told us that
What did we do in 2021?
What did we do? Well – it started off slowly – it took until June before we did anything much. We started off with Laila’s smile Laila had some special ‘mum and me’ time when they were picked up in a Cinderella carriage and Laila
Adapt and amend
Since the pandemic we realise that we have to make some to changes to the way we work to still be able to make youngsters smile. We now do our ‘Bags’ – Birthday, Christmas and ‘Just Because’ and our Awards. We also just help people
60 Minute Makeover?
It seemed a simple idea at the time………. We had a nomination from Brian House earlier in the year and, after talking to the mum, due to the pandemic decided to leave it till things became a bit more settled.
Magic Moments
We had a special ‘smile’ earlier this week……… Brian House Children’s Hospice in Blackpool nominated Liv and her family. Liv is 7 and has been really quite poorly for some months. She’s been through some tough treatments with mum, dad and brother Ben alongside.
We need your help
We are thrilled skinny to have been chosen by Asda as one of the three latest charities for the Green Token Scheme. Before the pandemic it meant that when you received the green token when you’d been shopping at Asda – you dropped it into
What’s New?
We’ve come up with a new idea….. or two Having spent the pandemic wondering if we will ever be able to do our proper ‘smiles’ again, we decided we had to come up with a Plan B. The Plan B really came from the Birthday/Christmas
Just Because
This young man, Tomas, is the very first recipient of our ‘Just Because’ bags. Nominated by Sibling Support at Derian House, he’s been through an awful lot for a 10 year old and they thought he could do with a little bit of something